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- March 2000
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Medscape
By: Richard M.J. Bohmer and Lisa Shapiro Strovink
Medscape is a health care Web site that focuses on delivering high-quality information to health providers and consumers. This case describes Medscape's formation and business model and asks, How is this model unique and is it sustainable? View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Customer Focus and Relationships; Service Delivery; Web Sites; Information Industry
Bohmer, Richard M.J., and Lisa Shapiro Strovink. "Medscape." Harvard Business School Case 600-056, March 2000.
- 28 Jan 2021
- News
Lessons from the U.S.’s Rocky Vaccine Rollout
- 4 PM – 5 PM EDT, 30 Sep 2021
- Virtual Programming
HBS Perspectives in Health: Healthy Buildings and Productivity Organizational Imperatives Pre, During and Post Covid
Join the HBS Health Care Initiative for a discussion and Q&A with HBS professor John Macomber and Harvard School of Public Health associate professor and director of the Healthy Buildings Program Joseph Allen on their recent book, Healthy Buildings: How Indoor Spaces... View Details
- 12 Sep 2013
- Video
From the classroom to a company
- July 2000 (Revised May 2001)
- Case
WebMD (A)
Discusses the emerging role of the Internet in the health care industry and describes the strategy of WebMD in this new "ehealth" space. Issues include technology strategy, industry transformation, competition in turbulent environments, and strategic alliances. View Details
Keywords: Internet and the Web; Alliances; Competitive Advantage; Industry Structures; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry
Coughlan, Peter J., Michael G. Rukstad, and Carl Johnston. "WebMD (A)." Harvard Business School Case 701-007, July 2000. (Revised May 2001.)
- 29 Oct 2015
- News
Walgreens-Rite Aid merger would pose challenge to CVS
Gabe Weinreb
I am a second-year PhD student in the Health Policy and Management program at Harvard Business School where my advisor is Dr. Rob Huckman. I live in Brookline with my fiance Natalie and our two cats, Joe and Huey. Before grad school I was a research assistant in the... View Details
- October 1997 (Revised April 2002)
- Case
Planned Parenthood Federation of America (A)
By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Elaine V. Backman
Outlines the dynamic shifts in the external environment surrounding Planned Parenthood's operations in 1994. Health care reform was threatening some of its core customer base. The organization had to come up with a strategy and a process for adapting to the new... View Details
Rangan, V. Kasturi, and Elaine V. Backman. "Planned Parenthood Federation of America (A)." Harvard Business School Case 598-001, October 1997. (Revised April 2002.)
- 04 Mar 2020
- News
Medicarried Away?
- January 2017
- Supplement
Intrapreneurship at DaVita HealthCare Partners: Cash Flow Tool
By: Joseph B. Fuller and Christopher Payton
DaVita Healthcare Partners Inc. (DaVita) is one of the U.S.'s leading dialysis providers, a process whereby persons with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) are connected to a machine that performs the functions of a healthy kidney. Kent Thiry, DaVita's CEO, has expanded... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Health-care changes signal much-needed shift
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
James A. Hamilton Award, American College of Healthcare Executives
- 01 Nov 2019
- News
Trump Bets on Washington Outsider to Lead FDA Amid Political Battles
- 01 May 2020
- News
The Business of Medicine in the Era of COVID-19
Jaxon Wu
Jaxon Wu earned his Bachelor of Arts with Honors from Johns Hopkins University where he studied History of Science, Medicine, and Technology and Mathematics. In college, Jaxon worked at both the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the Johns Hopkins... View Details
- September 2003
- Case
Allscripts, Inc.
By: William A. Sahlman and Laurence E. Katz
Describes a set of decisions confronting an entrepreneurial team that is considering taking managerial control of Allscripts, a health care venture. The company has gone through nine rounds of external financing and has changed its business model several times. View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Business or Company Management; Venture Capital; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Health Care and Treatment; Corporate Finance; Health Industry
Sahlman, William A., and Laurence E. Katz. "Allscripts, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 804-053, September 2003.
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Professor Goh’s primary research interest is applying mathematical models to real-world problems in health care in order to inform, improve, and enhance medical decision making and health policy. His recent work in this domain focuses on developing new methods for... View Details
- 23 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
AIDS in Africa—What’s the Solution?
$10 behind health care, there's a problem." Dr. Pride Chigwedere, an Oak Foundation Research Fellow at the Harvard AIDS Institute who worked as a physician in Zimbabwe, said the policy issues begin with difficulties designing... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette